I tried a program called iMazing to create individual backups. It did a good job of backing up the data I needed and let me specify the files to put back...but the restore wouldn't work. I was so pissed. It also wouldn't restore that data without account data.

Fortunately, it let me export the notes as text files, but now there's no decent way to import those text files back into Notes. I really despise this system.

Sorry, I'm also very pissed off at Apple for other reasons this week...